MONDAY, April 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Kids today feel more pressured by their parents’ high expectations, and that may be feeding a rise in perfectionism, a new study suggests. Some people claim the title “perfectionist” with pride, but in psychology the term means something very different. It does notContinue Reading
MONDAY, April 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) — It turns out that trees might be good medicine. How so? New research shows that having lots of trees in your neighborhood could improve your health and lower your medical costs. “It’s time to stop looking at trees simply as an amenity andContinue Reading
MONDAY, April 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) — After a child shows up in the emergency room in the throes of an asthma attack, follow-up care is the best way to avoid another visit to the hospital down the road. But when researchers analyzed claims data on more than 90,000 asthma-relatedContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Images of Ukrainians being carried on stretchers from bombed-out buildings, wounded and bleeding, are heartbreaking, but one American surgeons’ group is doing its part to help teach the war-torn country’s citizens how to halt life-threatening bleeds. When serious injury strikes, time is ofContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) – Check your cupboards for any SKIPPY peanut butter, since you may need to throw the jar out. Skippy Foods LLC has announced a recall of a limited number of jars of certain lines of its peanut butter products because they may contain aContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — If you’ve had COVID-19 but not your COVID shot, you may wonder if getting a vaccine now will really help you. It will, two new studies say. Researchers in Brazil and Sweden confirmed that COVID-19 vaccines provided significant additional protection for people whoContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Reassuring new research finds that most face masks used by people during the pandemic don’t have high levels of chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The chemicals, which have been linked to numerous health harms, are used in many products to repelContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — You have a much better chance of surviving a cardiac arrest if non-medical first responders immediately begin CPR or use an automated external defibrillator (AED), according to a new study. Researchers also found that firefighters and police who are first to the sceneContinue Reading
THURSDAY, March 31, 2022 (HealthDay News ) — An emergency health order that has curtailed immigration at U.S. land borders is expected to be lifted in late May. An announcement about rescinding the order — which has been in place since the start of the pandemic and is called TitleContinue Reading
THURSDAY, March 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A two-year advisory that warned Americans against going on cruises has been dropped by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency first warned Americans against cruise ship travel in 2020 at the height of the pandemic, and last year saidContinue Reading